Ski resorts offer an opportunity to get out and enjoy the wintery weather, whether crisp clear blue sunny days, grey overcast dull light days, or that skiers wish, a foot or more of fresh powder. While a vast majority of North Americans detest a blizzard, snow enthusiasts love the weather forecast of a massive amounts of white flakes to fall. Depression sets in for hundreds of millions with the arrival of winter and cold temperatures, snowstorms, and comment of “I can’t wait for winter to be over with”. With avid skiers and snowboarders, depression sets in when the forecast has warm temperatures, a dry winter, and comments of “that ski area a thousand miles away received two feet and we received two inches”.
Smiles abound so gleefully when it does snow at a ski resort, and Denver has a classic destination, one with an easy to access hot spring, a ski resort that has a very youthful feel, one to wash away the winter blues. With the combination of a very efficient transportation system, the steam to warm chilly bones, snow as soft as soft snow can get, Steamboat Springs will deliver so many smiles on a winter day. This is a ski destination that skiers from all over the world go to just to be at and ski Steamboat, as no other major ski area is an easy drive from here. Steamboat delivers many desires in a ski location, especially warmth to drive away the winter blues.